RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 24 Palestinians during predawn raids across the occupied territory on Sunday, including two Palestinian parliamentarians, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.

Israeli forces carry out detention raids across the occupied Palestinian territory on a near-nightly basis, with the UN recording an average of 95 weekly raids in the West Bank in 2016, and 73 weekly raids on average thus far in 2017.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 6,500 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of January, which included four members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).

Israeli forces detained two Palestinian lawmakers during raids in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to a statement published by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

The statement identified the two as Khalid Tafish and Anwar Zboun, who are both deputies of the Change and Reform bloc in the PLC.

Israeli forces also detained Hassan al-Wardiyan and Ghassan Hirmas in Bethlehem raids, according to PPS.

Also in the south, PPS said that Israeli forces detained Munjid Khalid Ashour and Sabri Ibrahim Awwad from the Hebron district.

An Israeli army spokesperson only confirmed four detentions in Bethlehem, claiming they were all Hamas operatives, and one detention in Hebron.

Central West Bank and East Jerusalem

Meanwhile, a large-scale raid early Monday morning in the Ramallah area culminated a months-long pursuit of Palestinian activist Basel al-Araj, wanted by Israel for allegedly planning "terror attacks."

Israeli police spokesperson Luba al Samri also said that Israeli police, in collaboration with the Israeli army, raided and searched a home in the Salfit-area village of Bani Hassan, detaining one Palestinian and seizing a rifle.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed that four Palestinians were detained in the Qalqiliya district, three in the village of Azzun and one alleged Hamas operative in Qalqiliya city.

Israeli forces also detained three Palestinians from the northernmost West Bank district of Jenin, identified by PPS as 21-year-old Hatim Abu Ali, 23-year-old Hamza Nael Ammar, and former prisoner Husni Sahwahna.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed the three Jenin area detentions, saying two alleged Hamas operatives were detained from Jenin refugee camp and one Palestinians was detained in the village of Silat al-Harithiya in the northern outskirts of the West Bank.